Arrays.

[Anon]

I'm new to PHP4 and I need help with arrays!!
I have the following in a form:
Answer Choices (Select the correct answer)
<BR>
<INPUT NAME="Correct_Answer" TYPE="RADIO" VALUE="0">
<INPUT NAME="Choice0" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="50">
<BR>
<INPUT NAME="Correct_Answer" TYPE="RADIO" VALUE="1">
<INPUT NAME="Choice1" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="50">
<BR>
<INPUT NAME="Correct_Answer" TYPE="RADIO" VALUE="2">
<INPUT NAME="Choice2" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="50">
<BR>
<INPUT NAME="Correct_Answer" TYPE="RADIO" VALUE="3">
<INPUT NAME="Choice3" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="50">
<BR>
What I want is to arrange the above in an array (contains the values of the textboxes )!!
So how can this be done???

Thanks in advance.

[Anon]

Really depends on what you want to do with the data, however, to add all your entry's to an array.

Simply change the names of all your fields to Name="Choice[0]", Name="Choice[1]", etc.
Instead of having four seperate variables, you'll now have one array with four entries.

like:

<BR>
<INPUT NAME="Correct_Answer" TYPE="RADIO" VALUE="0">
<INPUT NAME="Choice[0]" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="50">
<BR>
<INPUT NAME="Correct_Answer" TYPE="RADIO" VALUE="1">
<INPUT NAME="Choice[1]" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="50">
<BR>
<INPUT NAME="Correct_Answer" TYPE="RADIO" VALUE="2">
<INPUT NAME="Choice[2]" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="50">
<BR>
<INPUT NAME="Correct_Answer" TYPE="RADIO" VALUE="3">
<INPUT NAME="Choice[3]" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="50">
<BR>

[Anon]

I used this for loop for displaying the 4 radio buttons and the 4 text boxes
for ($i=0; $i< 4; $i++)
{
Print ('INPUT NAME="Correct_Answer" TYPE="RADIO" VALUE="$i">');

Print ('<INPUT NAME="Choice[$i]" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="50"> <BR>');
}

The above loop worked but I want to retrieve the contents in another place and to store it the db. For example after previewing the choices the user can click on Edit to go back and edit the contents of the choices and there the radio buttons and the text boxes along with their contents will be displayed.

If you think that there is something wrong with the design or with the logic it self, please let me know.

Thanks for ur help.

[Anon]

Sounds fairly logical.

I would suggest counting your array before running your loop. Just good practice, that way if you add more questions later on, your FOR loop can handle them.

$count = count($choice);
for ($i=0; $i < $count; $i++)
{
Print ('INPUT NAME="Correct_Answer" TYPE="RADIO" VALUE="$i">');

Print ('<INPUT NAME="Choice[$i]" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="50"> <BR>');
}

[Anon]

I tried to display the contents but it didn't work
here is the for loop
for ($i=0; $i < $count; $i++)
{
Print ('INPUT NAME="Correct_Answer" TYPE="RADIO" VALUE="$i">');

Print ('<INPUT NAME="Choice[$i]" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="50" VALUE="$Choice[$i]"> <BR>);
}
This is the result I got:
Radio button, text box,VALUE="$Choice[$i]"!!

How can the contents of the text boxes be displayed in the text boxes??